Category: Coaches & Coaching
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An Impromptu Wake Up Call: AFP's Position on DEI
As Agile Coaches, we are familiar with that moment when we notice the need to name the elephant in the room. The one that many of us are aware of, but few of us are brave enough to talk about. This elephant is Racism and not talking about it has led to unconscionable behavior that harms neighbors, colleagues, families, and friends.
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Agile Fluency Model & Retrospectives, Part 3: Optimizing Zone
Optimizing teams have immediate access to the skills and perspectives their product development requires. When they gain proficiency, their market and product expertise flourishes. They empathize with both customer and business needs, and optimize the blend. Technical excellence continues to strengthen and broaden. They feel invincible as a team.
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Guest Post: Onboarding an Organization to Agile Practices with the Agile Fluency® Game
I have seen great results in using a board game to onboard teams, leaders, and even new agile coaches to agile practices. Running the Agile Fluency Game with teams and managers has enabled clearer understanding of new ways of working and sparked rich conversations about adopting new agile practices.
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The Bad News
The bad news: your Agile transition will never arrive at “We’ve transitioned. What’s next?” Instead, you will embark on an evolution to the agile that’s right for you.
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Agile in Action
Do you remember the early days of Agile? The later 1990’s? the early 2000’s? For those readers who don’t, in those early days of team-focused Agile we would often visit teams and hear, “This is the best job I’ve ever had. I love this work. I love working this way!”
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Agile Without Dedicated QA
In the early days of Agile, methods such as Extreme Programming advocated for shipping without a QA phase. In fact, they often didn’t have dedicated testers—or even bug-tracking systems. And yet there are stories of these teams producing an order of magnitude fewer defects than normal.
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